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Mental Health Awareness Week 2025 – What Makes a Community Colouring Sheet – FREE!

This calming and creative colouring sheet offers children a mindful way to explore what community means to them. Through familiar illustrations such as parks, people and shared spaces, children begin to reflect on the people and places that shape their community. From the helpers and neighbours, to friends and family, this resource opens the door for meaningful reflection and discussion on who and what makes up your children's community, and how this makes them feel.

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2025, this resource provides a powerful introduction to this year’s theme, The Power in Community and can promote multiple discussions and endless opportunities to learn. Download now!

Optional Follow-On Activity: After completing the colouring sheet, give your children a blank piece and ask them to draw the people, places and features that make up their own local community. This could include shop workers, postal workers, teachers, neighbours, bus drivers, green spaces, local shops, libraries, or even their favourite playground. Remind them that there’s no right or wrong answer, every community is different, and it’s all about who and what feels important to them!

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What Makes a Community? – Free Mental Health Awareness Week 2025 Colouring Sheet for Primary Schools and Professionals

This delightful free Mental Health Awareness colouring sheet encourages children to think about the parts and people that make up a community. The sheet features illustrated elements such as friendly neighbours, local parks, meeting spots, and shared spaces that children can colour in while reflecting on their own communities.

It's a calm and engaging activity that brings creativity and connection together, helping children to see themselves as valued members of their own communities too!

Benefits of This Resource

Encourages mindfulness and calm through creative colouring.
Sparks curiosity about what makes up a community.
Builds a stronger sense of place and belonging.
Helps children reflect on their connection to others.
Encourages group discussion and collaboration in class or at home.
Supports visual learners in understanding social dynamics.

How to Use

This colouring sheet isn’t just a calming creative task, it’s also a valuable opportunity for educators to support children’s emotional wellbeing through conversation and connection. While children colour, you can gently guide them to reflect on what a supportive community looks like, and what role they play within theirs. Ask questions like, “Who makes you feel safe or supported at school?” or “What do you think makes people feel like they belong?” These small but powerful conversations help children begin to understand concepts like empathy, cooperation and inclusion.

Use the colouring activity as a springboard to explore deeper themes such as diversity, kindness, shared responsibility, and emotional safety. You might create a class display about ‘Our Community’ using completed sheets, or pair the activity with circle time, allowing children to share ideas about how they contribute to a happy, supportive classroom.

This resource also opens the door to discussing mental health in a safe, age-appropriate way. Reinforce the idea that feeling connected to others is an important part of staying mentally well, and that everyone deserves to feel valued and included. By embedding these ideas into your everyday teaching through creative tasks like this one, you’re not only supporting Mental Health Awareness Week, you’re helping lay the foundations for lifelong emotional resilience.

Why Mental Health Awareness Week Matters

Mental Health Awareness Week is an important time to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and encourage open conversations about emotional wellbeing. For children, it offers an opportunity to learn how to name and manage their feelings, develop empathy for others, and recognise when to ask for help. This annual event is a chance for schools, homes, and communities to come together in support of emotional health and show that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical health. Engaging in activities during this week also helps children understand that they’re not alone, and that mental health is something we all share and can support together.

About This Year’s Theme – Power in Community

The 2025 theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is "Community", a celebration of the people, relationships, and connections that help us feel supported, safe and understood. For children, community can mean family, friends, classmates, teachers, neighbours, and even pets. Being part of a strong, caring community helps boost mental health by offering emotional support, reducing feelings of isolation and increasing confidence and resilience.

When we feel connected, we’re more likely to thrive. This year’s theme invites us to help children recognise the power in community - from acts of kindness and teamwork, to identifying who supports them and how they can support others in return. Our range of Mental Health Awareness resources for schools, professionals and more have been created to reflect that message in fun, accessible ways.

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